Description
Book SynopsisA lively survey of the politics of the Slow Food movement, an antidote to our fast-moving, work-obsessed capitalist culture.
Trade Review'The essential one-stop critical guide to the history, ideas, structure, and membership of the Slow Food movement' -- John Dickie, Reader in Italian Studies, University College London
'Shows us that the concept of Slow Food is not just a practical necessity for survival but offers a glimpse of a transformative change for the better in the way we live our lives' -- Neal Lawson, Chair of the political pressure group Compass
'The best account so far of the history and animating ideas behind Slow Food. An indispensable introduction' -- Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
'A thoughtful account of how politics came back to eating' -- Steven Poole, The Guardian
Table of ContentsPreface
PART ONE: IDEAS.
1. Politics in Search of Pleasure
2. The Critique of 'Fast Life'
3. Terra Madre
PART TWO: PEOPLE
4. Gastronome! The Arrival of a New Political Subject
5. The Return of the Producer…and the Death of the Consumer?
6. The Movement
PART THREE: PLACES
7. Rediscovering the Local
8. Virtuous Globalisation.
9. Slow Food, Gastronomy and Cultural Politics
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